Loca­tion: Basel

PERSONAL PROFILE I am a self-moti­vat­ed, ambi­tious, dynam­ic and ver­sa­tile indi­vid­ual with a great deal of dri­ve and enthu­si­asm. I pos­sess a diverse array of skills and abil­i­ties, includ­ing a high lev­el of com­put­er lit­er­a­cy. I am an excel­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tor with good inter-per­son­al skills, pos­sess­ing the abil­i­ty to work inde­pen­dent­ly or as part of a team. I main­tain a friend­ly and enthu­si­as­tic approach to work, even when under pres­sure. I pos­sess excel­lent prob­lem solv­ing skills and can work effi­cient­ly to dead­lines, mak­ing me a valu­able asset to any employ­er.

EDUCATION
Busi­ness Relat­ed Training:/
Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of Prince2 Foun­da­tion,
Advanced lev­el of Excel, Pow­er­Point

Uni­ver­si­ty of West Hun­gary, Budapest, Hun­gary
2003 – 2005, Mas­ters (MSc) – Euro­pean Union Stud­ies – Micro and macro Eco­nom­ics, Busi­ness Man­age­ment

Vitez Janos Roman Catholic Teacher Train­ing Col­lege, Eszter­gom, Hun­gary
BSc – Pri­ma­ry Lev­el Teach­ing (1999 – 2003); Ped­a­gogy

EMPLOYMENT
Jan­u­ary 2010 – present – Free­lance inter­preter (Eng­lish, Hun­gar­i­an)

Con­trac­tor basis
Oct 2009 – July 2010, Depart­ment of Ener­gy and Cli­mate Change (DECC), Var­i­ous Roles

Project Man­age­ment Office, House­hold Ener­gy Man­age­ment Strat­e­gy
As a mem­ber of the PMO team I sup­port­ed the Pro­gram Man­ag­er with every aspect of man­age­ment asso­ci­at­ed with the … pro­gram. I assist­ed the devel­op­ment of deliv­ery plans and helped to mon­i­tor them through until com­ple­tion. Effec­tive and time­ly com­mu­ni­ca­tion was cru­cial to the achieve­ment of var­i­ous goals. Oth­er respon­si­bil­i­ties includ­ed typ­ing meet­ing min­utes and reports; the gath­er­ing and con­sol­i­da­tion of sub-pro­gram data and liais­ing with stake­hold­ers at vary­ing lev­els of senior­i­ty, in oth­er gov­ern­ment depart­ments and exter­nal organ­i­sa­tions.
Per­son­al Assis­tant to the Deputy Direc­tors, House­hold Ener­gy Man­age­ment Strat­e­gy

I was respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing the Deputy Direc­tors’ E-Mails and diaries – com­mu­ni­cat­ing all impor­tant mat­ters and allo­cat­ing actions, where appro­pri­ate, to mem­bers of var­i­ous teams. I received and wel­comed vis­i­tors and man­aged all enquiries to the offices. Oth­er respon­si­bil­i­ties includ­ed organ­is­ing trav­el and hotel book­ings, expense pro­cess­ing, organ­is­ing meet­ings and ensur­ing the smooth run­ning of the office.

Diary Man­ag­er to the Direc­tor Gen­er­al, House­hold Ener­gy Man­age­ment Strat­e­gy
Key respon­si­bil­i­ties of this role were mak­ing sure the Direc­tor General’s diary was kept up to date and ensur­ing that the office worked as effec­tive­ly and effi­cient­ly as pos­si­ble. This expand­ed into organ­is­ing senior man­age­ment meet­ings, staff assem­blies, away-days and I was also respon­si­ble for staff par­tic­i­pa­tion in group devel­op­ment. I was fre­quent­ly asked to assist with strate­gic advice on pol­i­cy, man­age­ment and com­mu­ni­ca­tions issues. The role was incred­i­bly busy and very var­ied – flex­i­bil­i­ty in the work­place was a must.

Mar 2009 – July 2009, Depart­ment for Busi­ness, Inno­va­tion and Skills (BIS), HEO
Chi­na Mar­kets unit
I played an active role in mar­ket co-ordi­na­tion and brief­ing to busi­ness­es try­ing to estab­lish them­selves in Chi­na. I also assist­ed with the devel­op­ment of UK-Chi­na trade and sta­tis­tics and also helped dri­ve for­ward small projects look­ing at mar­ket access bar­ri­ers that British com­pa­nies expe­ri­ence in Chi­na.

Mar 2006 – Jan 2009, Depart­ment for Envi­ron­ment, Food and Rur­al Affairs (DEFRA),
Var­i­ous Roles

Exec­u­tive Offi­cer, Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Team
The respon­si­bil­i­ties of my role includ­ed organ­is­ing high lev­el quar­ter­ly com­mit­tee meet­ings and liais­ing with exter­nal stake­hold­ers. I was also pro­vid­ing admin­is­tra­tive sup­port to researchers and man­ag­ing stake­hold­ers and senior offi­cials from DEFRA.

Per­son­al Sec­re­tary to the Head of Divi­sion, Cli­mate Change Divi­sion
As a Per­son­al Sec­re­tary I man­aged the Head of divi­sion emails and diary — alert­ing him to all impor­tant emails and allo­cat­ing actions where appro­pri­ate to mem­bers of the divi­sion. I act­ed as the focal point for vis­i­tors to the head of divi­sion office and received and man­aged all tele­phone calls and enquiries to the head of divi­sion office.

Fund Project Assis­tant
The role of fund project assis­tant involved var­ied office tasks for gov­ern­ment fund­ed projects in the pri­vate sec­tor. I was also the key con­tact for exter­nal part­ners and man­aged com­mu­ni­ca­tions between the depart­ment and exter­nal com­pa­nies. The key focus of the projects was car­bon off­set­ting, requir­ing that I update data­base sys­tems with rel­e­vant and up to date infor­ma­tion.

Admin­is­tra­tive Offi­cer – Cli­mate Change Divi­sion, Pub­lic Engage­ment Unit
My respon­si­bil­i­ties in this post includ­ed assist­ing 83 Cli­mate Chal­lenge Fund Projects, Man­ag­ing and updat­ing data­bas­es and send­ing out large num­bers of DVD packs. I also checked pub­lic inbox­es and respond­ed to vary­ing ques­tions regard­ing CCF Projects, Car­bon off­set­ting work and mak­ing trav­el arrange­ments. Oth­er gen­er­al admin­is­tra­tive duties were under­tak­en.

Admin­is­tra­tive Assis­tant – Food and Farm­ing Divi­sion (CAPS Divi­sion)
The role of Admin­is­tra­tive Assis­tant to the team’s on-going twinned projects in East­ern Europe was both inter­est­ing and var­ied. While assist­ing with many gen­er­al office duties I also had some expo­sure to project specifics and was able to pass opin­ion and give advice on East­ern Euro­pean mat­ters.

Lan­guages: Flu­ent Eng­lish, Native Hun­gar­i­an, Basic Ger­man

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Pro­fes­sion­al skills – Excel­lent stake­hold­er man­age­ment and investor rela­tions skills at all lev­els; tax struc­ture over­sight; strate­gic plan­ning and data analy­sis; busi­ness devel­op­ment; oper­a­tional and finan­cial effec­tive­ness stud­ies; admin­is­tra­tive judg­ment; assum­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for deci­sions, con­se­quences and results; Sound judg­ment and dis­cre­tion.
• Organ­i­sa­tion­al skills – Organ­i­sa­tion­al plan­ning; abil­i­ty to be able to assign pri­or­i­ties to tasks; group­ing of sim­i­lar tasks; plan­ning and coor­di­nat­ing of sem­i­nars, recep­tions and sim­i­lar events and excel­lent time man­age­ment skills.
• Research and devel­op­ment – Strong researcher able to research invest­ment oppor­tu­ni­ties; assess poten­tial prof­itabil­i­ty; cap­i­talise on new busi­ness ven­tures and exe­cute inno­v­a­tive strate­gies.
• Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and cus­tomer focused skills – Excel­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tion and inter­per­son­al skills; good under­stand­ing of cus­tomer rela­tion­ships.
• IT skills – Com­put­er lit­er­ate, pro­fi­cient with the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Pow­er­Point etc.)
• Fur­ther Tech­ni­cal skills – Prepar­ing and mon­i­tor­ing bud­gets, pro­duc­ing finan­cial reports. Data admin­is­tra­tion.